Question

Okay, so for some reason this is giving me a error as seen here: http://prime.programming-designs.com/test_forum/viewboard.php?board=0
However if I take away the ‘&& $cur_row < 10’ it works fine. Why is the ‘&& $cur_row < 10’ causing me a problem?

  $sql_result = mysql_query("SELECT post, name, trip, Thread FROM (SELECT MIN(ID) AS min_id, MAX(ID) AS max_id, MAX(Date) AS max_date FROM test_posts GROUP BY Thread ) t_min_max INNER JOIN test_posts ON test_posts.ID = t_min_max.min_id WHERE Board=".$board." ORDER BY max_date DESC", $db);
                $num_rows = mysql_num_rows($sql_result);
                $cur_row = 0;
                while($row = mysql_fetch_row($sql_result) && $cur_row < 10)
                {
                    $sql_max_post_query = mysql_query("SELECT ID FROM test_posts WHERE Thread=".$row[3]."");
                    $post_num = mysql_num_rows($sql_max_post_query);
                    $post_num--;
                    $cur_row++;
                    echo''.$cur_row.'<br/>';
                    echo'<div class="postbox"><h4>'.$row[1].'['.$row[2].']</h4><hr />' .$row[0]. '<br /><hr />[<a href="http://prime.programming-designs.com/test_forum/viewthread.php?thread='.$row[3].'">Reply</a>] '.$post_num.' posts omitted.</div>';
                }

Answer 1

Operator precedence — assignment (=) has a lower precedence than &&.

Your line of code is equivalent to this one (which is fairly obviously flawed):

while($row = (mysql_fetch_row($sql_result) && $cur_row < 10))

You can fix this by using the and operator instead of &&, or by using parenthesis.

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($sql_result) and $cur_row < 10)

or

while(($row = mysql_fetch_row($sql_result)) && $cur_row < 10)